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As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. Yesterday’s show floored me. I consider Gregg Spiridellis a good friend. We’ve hung out periodically over the past few years and I have enjoyed debating many startup topics. […]

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go […]

Browser based apps or native apps? I am going to harp on the same topic I touched yesterday again but from the desktop angle. I apologize if it appears to be repetitive but I want to drive home this point again. To begin with, let me give some background on the debate and go on […]

Two years ago I did a number of videos about using Google Hacking and how simple it was to use Google as an intelligence vehicle for sites and people who did not properly secure their infrastructure. Over the last month two of those videos were flagged by the community as inappropriate with the end result […]

I’ve seen some strange ads before, but this one by Enterprise SaaS provider SuccesFactors is beyond imagination – not the ad itself, but where it is placed: Yes, it is on Youtube, and the video shows a seahorse giving birth. Seahorses are rather unusual species, the male gets pregnant and gives birth to 100-200 babies […]

<rant> Italian Judge Oscar Magi (photo @ TechCrunch , but I am not showing it for fear he might slap me with a privacy-invasion charge) has no idea what he’s dealing with. He’s just allowed evil witches get away with only 6 months suspended jail sentence. (C’mon, why would their employer insist on covering up […]

It seems only fair that while I’m off enjoying a (Southern Hemisphere) summer road trip, I should continue to provide my readers with some thoughts. I figured seeing I’ll be a million miles from anywhere, and unable to access decent connectivity, that a series of my ranty-est posts, with some new rants thrown in for […]

On a note left on the Smugmug Blog, a critical piece of infrastructure failed on Smugmug this morning leaving everything that was connected to the system pretty much so down. At time of writing logins are not working and the site is in read only. A critical part of our infrastructure failed this morning and […]

One of the hall mark anti-piracy ads from the 1980’s was “Don’t Copy that Floppy” sung by MC Double Def DP (data protection). While copying programs, movies and music has exponentially grown from its humble floppy disk beginnings the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Alliance) has also stated a word of mouth campaign, reintroducing DP […]

I’m receiving congratulatory notes – in the age of Facebook and Plaxo there is no hiding. Oh, well, I’m happy to have reached 21, at least I can get a drink now. But June 5th is a memorable day for other reasons. This year it is the 20th anniversary of the of Tiananmen Square crackdown […]

Image via Wikipedia James Dean famously starred in the 1955 move “A Rebel with a Cause”. I’m no rebel but I do pride myself on being something of a curmudgeon from time to time, always keen to (hopefully) talk some sense amongst the evangelism that seems to typify our industry. Visiting the recent Web 2.0 […]

Image via Wikipedia In this edition of Living in the Cloud Series, I am going to discuss a way in which video can be streamed using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. We already have services like Youtube and Vimeo for streaming video on Clouds. However, they are more than streaming video and they also serve as […]

How do you create an internet company\product that can get the attention of more than 100 million unique viewers a month? That’s the tough question that Yossi Vardi’s was trying to find an answer to on his panel at this year’s DLD conference – 100,000 Million Uniques (video) – together with Glam’s co-founder Samir Arora, […]

Image via CrunchBase I am a strong advocate of interoperability between various Cloud players. In my opinion, it is very important for the very success of Cloud Computing, in general, and SaaS, in particular. Cloud vendors are slowly opening up their services through APIs so that other vendors and third party applications can integrate with […]